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    Virtue is the only thing required for happiness — Carmelics
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    The Stoics are well known for their teaching that the good is to be identified with virtue. Virtues include logic, physics, and ethics (Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta [=SVF]II 35), as well as wisdom, moderation, justice, and courage. To our modern ears, the first three sound like academic subjects; but for the Stoics, they were virtues of thought. However, orthodox Stoics do not follow the Aristotelian distinction between intellectual and moral virtues because – as we shall see – they hold that all

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